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...year tax cut to a one-year (we hope) slowdown is that once the $60 billion cavalry rides in, all Bush's hard work in bad-mouthing the economy to advance his agenda will have been wasted. He will have pulled the trigger. And the public-opinion scales will tip back toward the Democratic argument for fiscal caution...
...covered the Vietnam War. With a camera and a plane ticket, Paul set out to, as he says, "find his own war." He made it as far as Istanbul in 1981, when the military tensions in the Gulf got in the way of his eastward progress. On a tip from a fellow backpacker, he headed to Israel to find work at a kibbutz. He stayed for most of the next five years, laboring in the fields, managing irrigation systems and on one occasion coming close to live fire near the Lebanon border...
...Cornes is likely to have lots of company. There have already been some high-profile closures, including the much-maligned fashion site Boo.com last May. That may be just the tip of the iceberg. By 2004, predicts Internet research firm Jupiter MMXI, more than 80% of Europe's business-to-business websites will have disappeared - merged, collapsed or simply gone bust. The near future isn't looking good either. "In Europe," says Philippe Hayat, manager of French incubator Kangaroo Village, "the first trimester of 2001 is going to be a cemetery...
...word sex in an advertisement or a product name. But Shanghai radio sexologist Chen Kai - his business card features a pop-up penis - recently gave on-air advice to a housewife who wanted to know if it was safe to pleasure herself with a frozen cucumber. (Chen's tip: thaw it first.) In backwater Phnom Penh, the ankle-length sarong is starting to get shorter, and sex educators say some 50% of high school boys are having sex with girlfriends, often in fast-sheet hotels charging $1 an hour. At the Rainbow Pub in Hong Kong, where homosexuality was prosecuted...
FOILED FEB. 5, 2001 Hoyt, Kans. Police were alerted to Richard B. Bradley Jr., 18, Jason L. Moss, 17, and James R. Lopez, 16, by an anonymous hot-line tip. A search of their homes revealed bombmaking material, school floor plans, a rifle, ammunition and white supremacist drawings, police said. They also reportedly found three black trench coats similar to those worn by the Columbine gunmen...